Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 43, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 March 1933 — Page 2

Quick Action Is Pledge of President Roosevelt

In Inaugural Address He Criticizes Banking Methods, Demands Sound Money in Sufficient Quantity and Indicates Increased Government Employment.

Washington.--With impressive ceremonies Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States on Saturday, March 4. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Hughes in the inaugural stand on the east steps of the Capitol at 12:30 p. m., following which the new President delivered his inaugural address. When the address was completed former President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover were driven to the station to take the train for New York and President and Mrs. Roosevelt were driven to the White House where they received some 500 specially invited guests and reviewed the inaugural parade. Just previous to the inauguration of President Roosevelt, Vice President John Nance Garner had taken the oath of office in the senate chamber. The President's inaugural address was as “I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our nation impels. “This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first

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of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes neeued efforts to convert, retreat into advance. “In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days. What Nation Faces. “In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difiiculties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. “More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problems of existence and an equally great num-

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ber toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark reali ties of the moment. “Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our door step, but a generous use of it lan guishes in the very sight of the supply. Indicts Money Changers. “Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. “True, they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. “Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish. “The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit. Happiness Not in Money. “Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto, but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men. “Recognition of the falsity of ma terial wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the aban donment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live. Nation Asks for Action. “Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This nation asks for action, and action now. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time through this employment accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.

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“Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. Quick Action Necessary. “The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricui tural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the federal, state and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost he dras tically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. “There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly. “Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency. Lines of Attack. “These are the lines of attack. I shall presently urge upon a new congress in special session detailed measures for their fulfillment and I shall seek the immediate assistance of the several states. “Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national .house in order and making income balance outgo. Our international trade relations though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity secondary to the establish ment of a sound national economy. I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first. I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishment. “The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various elements in and parts of the Unit ed States--a recognition of the old

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and permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer. It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that the recovery will endure. Policy of Good Neighbor. “In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor--the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others--the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors. “If I read the temper of our people correctly we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. “We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife. Assumes Leadership. “With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems. “Action in this image and to this end 's feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of

bitter internal strife, of world rela tions. “It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure. Prepared to Do Duty. “I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as the congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption. “But in the event that the congress shall fail to take one of these two courses and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis --broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. “For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time. I can do no less. People Have Not Failed. “We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity; with the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stern performance of duty by old and young alike. We aim at the assurance of a rounded and permanent national life. “We do not distrust the future of essential democracy. The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct vigorous action. They have asked for discipline, and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it. “In this dedication of a nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May he protect each and every one of us. May he guide me in the days to come.”

Breaks in Friendship With Foreign Powers

Washington.--President Hoover and members of his cabinet cleared their desks preparatory to turning the ship of state over to the new Roosevelt administration. A glance at the status of American foreign relations on the eve of the departure of President Hoover revealed that relations between the United States and three major foreign powers Great Britain, Japan and France --are not as friendly as they were when the outgoing administration took officer four years ago. War debts and the nation’s Far Eastern policies are held to be responsible in part for the rifts in international friendships. Great Britain’s action in delcaring an arms embargo against both Japan and China, after the League of Nations had named Japan as the aggressor, came as a startling surprise and disappointment to American diplomats. Great Britain’s failure to offer sufficient economic inducements also cooled the relations between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British officials. Within the last few days, the plans for a joint British-American war debt conference have appreciably slowed down. Reports are current that the negotiations may be delayed indefinitely. Difficulties over war debt payments which led to French default of its $20.000,000 December 15 payments did not aid the good relations between the two governments.

Mrs. Roosevelt Attends Great Inaugural Ball

Washington.--Except for a family dinner at 8:00 p. m., the first enjoyed officially by the Roosevelt family in their new home, the duties of Mr. Roosevelt were over for the day with the reception. He was free to watch the fireworks display in the monument grounds. Not so for Mrs. Roosevelt, however. At night she was escorted to Washington’s large convention hall where the usual inaugural ball was held. There she occupied a box for a short time and was the center of attraction for 8,000 persons who had purchased tickets for the occasion, the proceeds of which will be devoted to charity. Mrs. Roosevelt had intended to abstain from appearing at the ball, out of respect to the memory of Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, attorneygeneral designate, but changed her program on hearing that many who had planned to attend were turning back their tickets.

Cabinet Members Present

Washington.--Surrounding the Roosevelt inaugural group were the new members of the Roosevelt cabinet, including Cordell Hull of Tennessee, secretary of state; William H. Woodin, secretary of the treasury; George H. Dern, secretary of war; Claude A. Swanson, secretary of the navy; James A. Farley, postmaster general; Henry Wallace, secretary of agriculture; Harold L. Ickes of Chicago, secretary of the inferior; Daniel C. Roper, secretary of commerce, and Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor. Miss Perkins is the only woman ever appointed to a cabinet post.

TURK SEES WORLD TURN UPSIDE DOWN

Term ‘Unchanging’ No Longer Applies to Him. At midnight in his unguarded kitchenette the Turk lies dreaming--his dreams shifting to nightmares in which he sees himself now covering his head with the ugly black derby of the western giaour, now twisting his tongue as he outlines the chirography of the infidel dogs, again tangled up in an intricate coil of modern plumbing. Nor does the morning sun bring balm to his spirit. Only a few days ago he opened his door to find an irade posted on the wall telling him that he must take another step in imitation of the detested foreigner: he must assume a family name. “Hussein the Forlorn,” “Abdullah the Crookshank,” “Fatima the Star-Eyed,” names which have been adequate in a country of small self-contained communities, must give way to patronymics. What is a poor Turk to do? Shall the children of Hussein be known as Johnnie and Susie Forlorn? Shall the straight-limbed offspring of Abdullah carry forever the name of Crookshank? Shall Fatima’s name be lost in that of her husband? Or will the restless Kemal scatter old American telephone directories among the populace and leave them to pick out the names there that suit their fancy? If that should come to pass the unspeakable Turk will become unspeakable in a new sense--unable to pronounce his own name. Surely the old way was best--the way that once prevailed among our own ancestors, when trades and qualities gave a man his name, when, behind the line of battle at Senlac and Agincourt, the field for acres upon acres glowed with the forges of the Smiths, sharpening battleaxes, tinkering at cross-bows, hammering at morion and chamfrain and greave and cuirass to fit William Knight and George Squire and Jack Bowman and a thousand war horses for their grim business. What would the Arabian Nights tales be if they

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